UAE First Arab Nation on Trend Countries

This week, Twitter announced it was expanding its local trends feature on the website, adding 70 new countries and cities to the resource – one of which is the United Arab Emirates.

In a Twitter blog post, the social network revealed:

We first launched Trends as a useful way for people to find out what topics are being talked about around the world, right now. Early last year, we added Local Trends to make it easier to find more locally relevant topics in specific countries and metropolitan locations.

Today, we’re adding Trends for more than 70 new cities and countries – bringing the total number of locations to more than 100.

Here are the current UAE trends (at time of posting): #taxes (promoted trend); #dearsomeone; #justsaying;#happyendings; Ryan Giggs; Kerala; Doha; ASAP; Barça; and Torres.

by Rachel McArthur

One-half Arab and one-half European, Rachel McArthur is a music-loving, FCBarca-obsessed, writer/journalist with a passion for all things music, travel, food, science, lifestyle, current affairs and sport! Digital Projects Editor at Explorer (a Middle Eastern leisure and lifestyle portal), as well as Arab entertainment columnist for Gulf News newspaper. Her proudest moment so far has been interviewing her favourite band of all time: Metallica. Her interview with Paulo Coelho comes a close second.

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